Join the Jam

WDST in Woodstock is running a contest in conjunction with its Mountain Jam festival June 1-3. The station is giving a Hudson Valley band the shot at performing at the festival, which will feature Gov’t Mule, Phil Lesh and many others.

Right now, they have a list of 15 bands that survived the first round of voting, by a panel of judges made up of Anthony DeCurtis from Rolling Stone; Mark McKenna of Allaire Studios, who has worked on albums by Bruce Springsteen and many others; and Danny Louis, who grew up locally and plays keyboards for Gov’t Mule.

These bands are pretty impressive. But I have selected my top 3. They are, in order:

1 – The Deadbeats2- Wreckloose3- The Warhol Crowd.

You can go to www.wdst.com right now and vote, but the deadline is 4 p.m. The top 3 winners will be announced at 5 p.m. today. They will play Saturday night at the Bearsville Theater, in a battle of the bands, with the winner earning the slot at Mountain Jam.